Charles J. Poppe Building

Site of the Poppe

Dry Goods & General Merchandise Store

1883-1937

and

Glen Ellen Post Office

First built of wood in 1883

Destroyed by fire in 1905

Rebuilt of stone with two stories in 1906

Damaged in 1906 Earthquake

Rebuilt with three stories in 1907 top two stories of ...

James L. Kemper Residence

This Greek Revival-style house was built about 1852 for state senator Thomas N. Welch. In 1868 James Lawson Kemper (1823–1895) purchased it from his mother in law, Mrs. Belfield Cave. Kemper, an attorney, represented Madison County in the House of ...

John H. Tunstall

Murder Site

In one of the Lincoln County War’s earliest violent encounters, John H. Tunstall was shot and killed at a nearby site on February 18, 1878. Tunstall’s death set off a series of violent reprisals between his friends, among ...

John O'Neill

This cannon of the War of 1812

marks the site of the battery on Concord Point

where

John O'Neill

1769-1838

served the guns single handed during the

British attack upon Havre de Grace

May 3, 1813 until disabled and captured.

He was released from the British frigate ...

Red Jacket

"Sa-go-ye-wat-ha"

Seneca Chief Red Jacket (ca. 1758-1830) lived in a cabin on this site when this area was part of the Buffalo Creek Reservation. Known for his great oratory and keen mind, Red Jacket was an eloquent advocate for the preservation ...

Jacksonville

First County Seat

Town first called Drayton.

Renamed in 1834 to honor

President Andrew Jackson.

Seat moved to Anniston in 1899.

Calhoun Co. originally was Benton Co.,

for Col. T. H. Benton, Creek War officer,

later U. S. Senator from Missouri.

Renamed in 1858 for John C. Calhoun,

champion ...

Red Jacket.

SA-GO-YA-WAT-HA

(He keeps them awake)

The orator of the Six Nations of Iroquois

A chief of the Wolf Clan of the Senecas

Born near this spot-died at Buffalo N.Y.

1750 1830

Marker is on New York Route 89 0.3 miles north of Cemetery Road, on ...

John Tyler Morgan

1824-1907

Lawyer, Soldier, Senator

? Lived here in 1838

1862-63 Colonel of

51st Alabama Cavalry

Raised by him in this county

1863-65 Brigadier General C.S.A.

with Wheeler’s Cavalry

1876-1907 United States Senator

Distinguished Statesman

of Alabama.

Marker is on Public Square West (State Highway 21) east of Ladiga Street Southwest, ...

Joseph Sharp's Iron Works

In 1768, Joseph Sharp erected a forge and furnace on the Wallkill River. The village around the Sharp Iron Works became known as Sharpsborough, later becoming Hamburg. Due to the expensive nature of the venture and competing forges, Sharp abandoned ...

Jennie Wade Birthplace

In this modest weatherboard house, constructed ca. 1820, Mary Virginia “Jennie” Wade was born on May 21, 1843. Wade, the second of six children of James and Mary Filby Wade, spent her childhood here, attending local schools and helping with ...